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Asch ([personal profile] oncedriven) wrote in [community profile] starwardbestrewn 2023-02-01 01:21 pm (UTC)

It's a litany that rubs up against you uncomfortably. You owe everything to Dumbledore, after all. But the way Solus is talking about it, that's exactly the point, and the way Sirius grimaces tells you that he believes the logic of it even if it's hard to swallow. And in matters of how pureblood society works, he has more knowledge than you, even with the holes Azkaban put in his memories.

(After all, little of his experience of it was good.)

Solus says, "Additionally... There is one other matter regarding Harry that I would bring to your attention, separate from the matter of the abuse. Even more so than that, I ask that it not leave this room. If it becomes public knowledge, I will take appropriate revenge, for my own safety if nothing else."

You and Sirius glance at each other. He raises an eyebrow at you, and you nod. Sirius says, "We understand. D'you want a vow about it?"

"I trust that won't be necessary," Solus says, "and indeed, I would prefer not to. You are to keep this secret only so far as keeping the secret does not endanger an innocent life; if one can be saved by revealing it, I expect you to do so."

Sirius nods. You say, trying to lighten the mood, "Is this the part where you tell us all the scholyard rumors were true, and you actually do have the Sight?"

"In a manner of speaking," Solus says, which catches you off guard. "I have no talent for foresight save that which all men possess by judgement of their experience. My Sight is rather different; I possess the ability to See souls, even at a significant distance."

Sirius says, "Huh. So that's why we couldn't get past you even in the Cloak," and you do not hiss about him casually revealing James' Invisibility Cloak because Solus replies, pretty much immediately, "It gives me some plausible deniability when it comes to Harry's after hours escapades."

You say, cautiously, "Is there something wrong with Harry's soul?"

And Hades Solus replies, "There's a fragment of another soul embedded in his curse scar. Unless I am very much mistaken, it is that of Voldemort himself."

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